Broken bones always seem to mend*

[bending_sickle]

I keep writing posts in my head, in detail, about all the events and feelings and musings I want to share or simply need to set down. But then time passes and I get everything together and then there's nothing to say. I've been quite lax in posting as of late - and by that I mean something like the past few months, honestly - and for that, well, sorry. If anything for the out-of-date links. Whatev'. I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve and Day, and wish y'all the best for 2012. Smile! If we live through the Mayan apocalypse, we get to look forward to the Croatoan virus.

One reason I've not been writing anything is that I've been spending all my time blissfully mellowed out with Tumblr. Another, more acceptable reason, is that there's nothing to say. Which is of course a lie because I could always pull something out about fandom, at the least. But lately I've not been doing much. Well, I've been finishing compilations (see below). But otherwise not really doing much of anything. Today I went out running after weeks of impersonating a hibernating grub and I started looking for plane tickets to go visit my brother, although that's causing all sorts of anxiety because I don't even know. (The looking-for-tickets thing, not visiting-my-brother, mind.) I did go socializing that one time, with my volunteer-work supervisor, which was lovely and wonderful, but it's quite sad to basically be able to point at a month or a string of months, "That's when I hung out with folk." So I've been Tumblring a lot and watching a lot of television and huddling under every warm thing I can find and generally not thinking about much of anything. Except maybe about how I'm still waiting for a Christmas card from mrscastielftw to arrive - it's somewhere in the between-homes postage ether - and it's getting to be a long, sad wait. It doesn't help that I've been falling asleep at 4 am these past few days.

Even now I'm drawing a blank, just that I really wanted to post because a) it's the new year and I might as well tell y'all I'm not dead and b) Links of the Day. So there you go. Oh, and memes. Now, excuse me, I have some American Horror Story to streamline into my veins.


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Fandom Questions Meme: prompted by seschat

White Collar

Five favourite characters: Neal, Peter, Mozzie, Elizabeth and Diana
Three OTPs: Peter/Elizabeth, Elizabeth&Mozzie (platonic friendship of win), June&Neal (plantonic caring thing of win)
Funniest character: Mozzie!
Prettiest character: Diana (I also have a thing for her voice)
Most bad-ass character: Peter (I just love it when he proves Neal wrong about being able to do something or not)
Character I’d like as my BFF: Elizabeth
Character that’s ruined my life: None of them! \o/ Finally, a show that does not cause me heartache! (Although Neal certainly made me wibble in 1x10 when he was hyped up on drugs and confessing he could only ever trust Peter.)

Supernatural

Five favourite characters: Dean, Sam, Bobby, Castiel, Crowley. Honourable mention: Jimmy.
Three OTPs: I ship everyone in every way. Sam/Dean, Dean/Cas, Cas/Crowley... Oh gods it's like the human centipede of shipping.
Funniest character: ...Gabriel? It's hard to think of one because they're all dead. Season-One-Dean was hilarious, though.
Prettiest character: Dean. Because ngh.
Most bad-ass character: It's a toss-up between Dean and Castiel, because while Dean is consistently bad-ass, when Castiel goes full-on bad-ass, look out kids! I miss my bamf angel :(
Character I’d like as my BFF: Crowley I'm going to agree with seschat and say Sam (especially Season One). Also I'd love to go out drinking with Pam.
Character that’s ruined my life: EVERYONE. <- What seschat said.

Doctor Who

Five favourite characters: Wilf, Donna, the Doctor, the Master, Rory
Three OTPs: Doctor/Master, Master/Martha (look I read really good fic for it okay), Amy/Rory (OPT of OTPs)
Funniest character: ...Donna?
Prettiest character: Amy (her haaaaaiir)
Most bad-ass character: Amy (especially AU-future-Amy)
Character I’d like as my BFF: Donna (look I just love her a lot okay?)
Character that’s ruined my life: Donna. Everytime I think about her fate it hurts.

True Blood

Five favourite characters: Lafayette, Eric, Pam, Terry, Jessica. Honorary mention: Gran and Rene
Three OTPs: Sookie/Eric, Jessica/Hoyt, Eric&Pam
Funniest character: Lafayette (especially Season 1)
Prettiest character: Jessica
Most bad-ass character: Eric
Character I'd like as my BFF: Sookie
Character that's ruined my life: Gran *tears everywhere*

Misfits

Five favourite characters: Kelly, Simon, Rudy, Curtis (also girl!Curtis), Probabtion Worker Shaun
Three OTPs: Kelly/Seth, Simon/Alisha, Kelly/Nathan
Funniest character: Rudy
Prettiest character: Alisha
Most bad-ass character: Kelly (she beat the shit out of Hitler)
Character I'd like as my BFF: Curtis
Character that’s ruined my life: Alisha and Simon, damn them!

Meme: Have you read more than 6 of these books?

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

Your anglocentrism is adorable, BBC. Where are these "most people" from, anyway?

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien - Technically these are six books in three volumes. So if you've just read this, already you're giving the BBC an "up yours".
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - These are seven books. Again, BBC, what kind of crack are you on that you think most people have only read 6 books off this list?!
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - School
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte - School
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell - Hated it
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman - WANT
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - HOW IS THIS ONE BOOK, BBC?!?
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger - School. Hated it, although I can't remember a thing.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - THESE ARE SEVEN BOOKS WTF BBC
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
b36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis - THIS IS PART OF "BOOK" 33, YOU IDIOTS
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres - Forever scarred by the movie.
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell - School
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding - School
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth - WANT
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez - School
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov - WANT
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie - WANT
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro - WANT
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams - WANT
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare - WHAT DO YOU MEAN ISN'T THIS PART OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE?!?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Quote of the Day: marika_kailaya, here

this is what i figure the holidays end up being an excuse for: "i love you! nobody's watching right now. nobody's going to bat an eye. everybody loves somebody right now."

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
dean_sam's flocked Magazine #28, Part 2, Part 3
bardicvoice's Meta Spectral Speculations
killkacy's Fic The Ghost in the Machine ♥
mad_server's Fic That Other Home
orbiting_saturn's Fic The Purest Element (Sam/Cas)
spn_themes's Fic Recs Crowley
princess_schez's Fanart Crowley and Balthy go to the Dark Side
Blackbirdrose's Fanart So Crowley...Now What? - XD
Giljimbo's Fanart Crowley - All his faces!
thewalkincliche's Fanmix I Can't Be Your Saviour
wormstaches' Fanmix But it Can Be Won
wtfwinchesters's Fanmix You Are Here
secretlytodream's Fanvid We Laugh and it Pits the World Against Us
siennis' Fanvid The Way It Should Have Gone
eia55553's Fanvid Home For Christmas
bevwa's Fanvid Tha Dam's Gonna Give
huf_girl's White Collar Fanvid Criminals
gowdy's Fanvid Somebody That I Used to Know
OurForever's Fanvid My Name is Dean Winchester - *crying over everything*

• Jawdust's Fic A good friend once told me


• Endiness' Meta "We are tired. We just want paradise." - #And you can see how much Castiel wants it too #How much he wants the fighting to be over and for his family to live in peace


• Karikyrie's Meta Rachel, the angel ; Meta #My heart hurts #Can you imagine Cas having to remember this #helplessly lying on the ground... ; Meta Moments of Sam and Cas' friendship ; Meta #this scene is so beautiful #because castiel has the strength of an angel #if he didn’t want to be moved by dean #then he WOULDN’T be moved by dean


• Soulfisting's Meta #We don’t work with the bad guys and ‘make another deal with the devil’ except for when we do


• Tickle_me_misha's Meta On Lisa and the writers ; Still not sure if I like or hate John Winchester ; Head!Canon List ; Meta Adam Milligan ; On the lost potential of Leviathonstiel ; Castiel's "Official Notice: Formal Apology" ; Meta #cas/happiness is not cas is heaven with the other angels


• Newton_pulsifer's SPN Angel Spin-off / Sigils & Swords

Doctor Who:
jjhunter's Review Christmas Special 2011
lonewytch's Meta Christmas Special 2011
Alifeunexamined's Meta Womanhood does not equal Motherhood (a Doctor Who rant)
BBC's Merry Christmas Video with the Doctor (10)

Sherlock:
mazarin221b's Meta There's a theory of social interaction I read about once, long ago, called "refrigerator rights"

• Tacoface's Two clips from series 2 ; Meta See that face? ; Meta Transcript of the newspaper column


• Newton_pulsifer's Meta Reply to "oh, because naturally it’s the place of every queer woman to find herself, in the end, hopelessly in thrall to the rich white douchebag and to have to beg him to save her."


• Karikyrie's Meta When Sherlock looks at Irene he’s thrown off guard, out of his comfort zone, into a disquieting realm of insecurity and failure. So of course he looks back to his safe-base.

Other Fandom:
john_simm's Mad Dogs Teaser Trailer for Jan. 19, Series 2
obsessive24's Another Earth's Fanvid Roads
cleolinda's Prometheus (Aliens Prequel) Trailer ; The Hobbit Trailer
greensilver's Captain America Fanvid Sorrow
Star Trek's Video TNG Ambien Engine Noise (idling for 24 hours)
Questionable Content's Goodwill Toward All Men and Machines and the fictional UN Hearing on AI Rights
BBC's The Pied Piper of Hamelin (30 Dec. 2011) - "David Tennant stars in The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning with music and songs by John Harle and lyrics by Joyce Harle sung by the choir of Wingham School, Kent with Thomas Platts (Head Chorister at Canterbury Cathedral)."

• Theronweasleygeneration's Harry Potter Meta Why I love Ginny Weasley


• Queerdanceparty's Glee Meta Ablesim in Glee: "I Will Try to Fix You" is not what we want to hear - "Love doesn’t do that, neither does sex, and neither does denying your coping mechanisms because they’re supposedly not 'normal.'"

Random:
made_of_fail_pc's Episode Forty-Nine: The Show Must Go On
stoppedhiding's Livejournal Fix-It
greygirlbeast's Video "Open the Door" by Magnapop ; Video "Just Glue Some Gears On It (And Call It Steampunk)" by Pikedevant
chaosvizier's flocked It's the LJ Question of the Day!
theweaselking's Live baby rhino cam!
Rookiemag's Just Wondering - 12/27/2011 - "But the fact is, fear and distrust are two very natural, very useful reactions to have. They exist to warn you of danger, and to make you leave dangerous situations. If some part of you is saying “this isn’t right,” you need to act on that. Act as if it isn’t right. Get away from this guy."
MNN's Georgia researchers develop vaccine that kills cancer cells
News Canada's Canadian university's AIDS vaccine wins approval - The University of Western Ontario, that is.
Dafont's Font - Simple Gallifreyan
Juancole's Top ten myths about the Arab spring of 2011

• Associate_mike_ross' The homoeroticism bait


• Tacoface's Recipe Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies


• Tickle_me_misha's A Colorado-based Girl Scouts troop’s decision to admit a 7-year-old transgender child this fall has prompted three leaders to resign and dissolve their troops. ; I’ve been thinking, lately, there’s something really special about internet friendships.


• Seschat's Allan G. Johnson’s work on systems of privilege and oppression - WATCH THIS ; Siri Failures, Illustrated - "The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice."


• Newton_pulsifer's A lubricated vagina does not mean that a woman consents to sex. ; Because of compounded anti-choice and anti-healthcare legislation, a young woman could not afford birth control. Nor could she afford to carry a pregnancy to term — fiscally or emotionally.

* Angus & Julia Stone, "The Devil's Tears"

Comments

[mrscastielftw.livejournal.com]

I also included a New Year’s card – Joking that at least it would arrive on time, but it seems I’ve been thwarted again *Shakes Fist*

Or I’m just going to be slightly early for next year ;)

♥

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

You would find my lack of faith in the Italian postal service disturbing... Maybe it's taking an extra while because it's a (wee) box? *fingers permanently crossed*

*snuggles*

[seschat.livejournal.com]

I love this post! And aah, the memes! \o/

Although I've got to say I was hella confused at the "Curtis as my BFF" part. I mean, uh. Really? XD

*hugs*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Weeeell, I wouldn't be able to handle Nathan or Rory (maybe Other!Rory), and I doubt I'd be able to handle Kelly or Alisha either, and Simon's got that doomed-Romeo thing. I just like Curtis. He's level-headed and nice. *shrugs*

[seschat.livejournal.com]

Oh but I disagree. I'd take any of them before I'd take Curtis XD Yes, I'm a Curtis hater, ahah. :P

(Who's Rory, though? You mean Rudy, yes?)

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* Rudy, yes. Damn you, subconscious, Rory is the Roman.

I like them all, though, and as "character I'm interested in" there's others I care more about than Curtis, but I just like his take on life. Why don't you like Curtis? Is it a specific thing, or just general meh?

[seschat.livejournal.com]

I like female!Curtis? I don't know why, but I just can't imagine being friends with him. He seems so narcissistic and self-absorbed to me :/

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Well, I can see your point, especially in Season 1 ("Why am I here, I'm waaaay too good for this place and these people, what?")

Although, yes, girl!Curtis ftw.

[phantmgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of watching American Horror Story. is it creepy or violent or both?

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

It's both. There's murder (both premeditated and spur-of-the-moment), vengeful ghosts and some not-very-nice people. There's also a lot of non-supernatural people drama which may be upsetting, like a rocky marriage with trust issues, self-harm and the like. I haven't watched the whole thing but I know there's some harder issues coming up (which I can detail if you need the warning). However, it's well-done, well-acted, and a good haunting ghost story in all.